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Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Spotlight on "Girl Waits with a Gun" by Amy Stewart (HFVBT)

Guys, I'm spotlighting this book for you, hopefully I will have a review for you later in the month!

From the New York Times best-selling author of The
Drunken Botanist comes an enthralling debut novel based on the forgotten
true story of one of the nation’s first female deputy sheriffs.

Constance Kopp doesn’t quite fit the mold. She towers over most men,
has no interest in marriage or domestic affairs, and has been isolated
from the world since a family secret sent her and her sisters into
hiding fifteen years ago. One day a belligerent and powerful silk
factory owner runs down their buggy, and a dispute over damages turns
into a war of bricks, bullets, and threats as he unleashes his gang on
their family farm. When the sheriff enlists her help in convicting the
men, Constance is forced to confront her past and defend her family —
and she does it in a way that few women of 1914 would have dared.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Amy Stewart is the author of seven books. Her latest, Girl Waits With
Gun, is a novel based on a true story. She has also written six
nonfiction books on the perils and pleasures of the natural world,
including four New York Times bestsellers: The Drunken Botanist, Wicked
Bugs, Wicked Plants, and Flower Confidential. She lives in Eureka,
California, with her husband Scott Brown, who is a rare book dealer.
They own a bookstore called Eureka Books. The store is housed in a
classic nineteenth-century Victorian building that Amy very much hopes
is haunted.Stewart has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and
many other newspapers and magazines, and has appeared frequently on
National Public Radio, CBS Sunday Morning, and–just once–on TLC’s Cake
Boss. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts
fellowship, the American Horticulture Society’s Book Award, and an
International Association of Culinary Professionals Food Writing Award.

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1 star: This was a struggle to finish.2 star: Wouldn't read it again but it had some good parts.3 star: I liked this book. I'd probably re-read it.4 star:Loved this book. Will get it from the library again!5 star: I LOVED this book and I must own it and put it on my bookshelf so I can read it at my every whim!